id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_j6pzsnq3pvhu5dk6smmicg3oo4 Diane Richardson Deserving Victims?: Sexual Status and the Social Construction of Violence 1999 24 .pdf application/pdf 9995 553 51 Deserving Victims?: Sexual Status and the Social Construction of Violence example of public violence towards lesbians and gay men. how violence is socially defined and understood, therefore, are fundamental assumptions about humanity, in particular what constitutes a 'person' with a 'right to life'. The focus on lesbians and gay men is extremely useful in highlighting how interpretations of violence are mediated through notions of meanings attributed to violence towards lesbians and gay men, therefore, helps to make explicit the normative processes by which we violence towards lesbians and gay men in public settings is defined the occurrence of public violence towards lesbians and gay men in little research to date on how lesbians and gay men define and experience violence, in both public and private contexts.2 In a much larger national survey, over 4,000 lesbians and gay men were asked about their experiences of homophobic violence, harassment and verbal abuse. ./cache/work_j6pzsnq3pvhu5dk6smmicg3oo4.pdf ./txt/work_j6pzsnq3pvhu5dk6smmicg3oo4.txt